Virginity
83 mins
The doomed love of a city girl caught in the vise of poverty is detailed in Vavra’s fluid, romantic work, one of the most elegant creations of the Czech Modernist era... The film lingers over its characters’ habitats and haunts, finding psychological truths in what each owns or desires, and countering every Hollywood-ready scene of gleaming restaurants and dazzling penthouses with realist moments of employment lines and crammed flats. Vavra’s classical camerawork and aura of romantic defeatism give Virginity a force comparable to the master of this genre, Hollywood’s Frank Borzage. (BAM/PFA)
Otto Ballon
Karel Pálený
Walter Schorsch
Assistant Director
Jan Kohout
Editor
Marie Majerová
Novel
A. J. Urban
Screenplay
Roman Blahník
Original Music Composer
Antonín Čejka
Lyricist
Josef Zora
Sound
Jan Sinnreich
Production Manager
Jan Roth
Director of Photography
Marie Majerová
Screenplay
Štěpán Kopecký
Production Design
